Don Dengel, kinesiology professor in exercise physiology, has been awarded a grant-in-aid from the Graduate School for his research on obesity and its impact on cognition and cerebral structure and function. The amount of the award is $30,518. Dengel is also the director the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, which studies the effect of various diseases (e.g., obesity, cancer, metabolic syndrome) on vascular and cardiac systems.